Nowadays the innovation is one of the most important determinant for increasing the wealth of the nations. The patterns of technological innovation are studied by Economics of innovation. The aim of this paper is to prove that the origins of the Economics of innovation go back to many years...

This paper presents the origins of the Economics of innovation describing the economic thought of the economists in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. In this period and in particular during the Industrial Revolution the economists argue the main effects of inventions and machines for...

Italian Abstract: Dopo aver lasciato la Toscana per diventare imperatore del Sacro Romano Impero, Leopoldo lasciò alcuni appunti (1790) che si rivelarono molto interessanti per l'economista di oggi. Mostrano come dovrebbe essere sempre considerato un approccio olistico alle caratteristiche...

The paper focuses on Federico Caffè’s outlook towards the problem of inflation. His attention for the claims of full employment didn’t prevent him from considering rigorously the negative impact of inflation on the economic system. His analysis stresses the incidence of «administrated...

Fodder for live-stock was, in Quesnay’s view, a critical portion of the farmer’s circulating capital. By increasing recourse to stabling it increased the availability of manure which in turn would increase yield per acre of land. Expenditure on fodder is in fact the single item that best of...

It is argued that, differently from a diffuse practice among modern economists, one needs reading more than the first couple of pages of the Wealth of Nations in order to fully appreciate Smith’s contribution to the economics of exchange, innovation and economic evolution. In particular, by...

The aim of this paper is to call attention on some writings of the early 1930s by D.H. Robertson and J.R. Hicks. These writings present, with a clarity not easily found elsewhere, the two reasons why marginalist economist, who till the last three decades normally treated capital as a single...

Italian Abstract: Kalecki ha ideato un nuovo metodo di analisi, che è stato utilizzato anche da alcuni dei suoi collaboratori.Sfortunatamente, tuttavia, quel metodo non ha avuto l'impatto che merita sulla ricerca applicata, nemmeno tra i suoi seguaci.L'obiettivo del presente lavoro è di...

Italian Abstract: Contributo a una serie di ricordi e riflessioni sulle esperienze professionali di eminenti economisti.Articolo originariamente pubblicato nel vol.39 n.159 della Rassegna trimestrale Banca Nazionale del Lavoro